ANTH 23 Chapter Notes - Chapter Film Notes: Reel Injun, Noble Savage, Crow Nation
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Anth 23 film notes reel injun. Used to hire real natives as extras in films. Silent films natives were prominently featured, and even directed many films. 1930"s indian transformed into brutal savage: westerns. Native languages were just english played backwards. Native americans were props": every indian becomes plains indian with headdress and headband, robbing nations of identity and grouping them into one. The true american wasn"t native: native americans stopped real americans from settling their own country. White guy that does the right thing, represents american values. Fictionalized notion of native society from films inaccurately portraying natives. Native americans became tool to stand in for oppressed people. Natives began to assert themselves more politically: protested at alcatraz island. Filmmakers portray native people in completely different way: native-style hero, use violence to get justice. Indians start to fight back in movies and in the real world: wounded knee. Portrayal of indians not knowing how to fight.
